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University Daily Kansan, November 18, 1983
NATION AND WORLD
Greek Cypriots protest Turkish act
By United Press International
NICOSIA, Cyprus — Thousands of Greek Cypriots stopped work for an hour yesterday to protest the self-proclaimed Turkish Cyprus state. but Turkey agreed to hold talks or not, as the divided Mediterranean island.
In New York, U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar told the Security Council that he would meet President Syriza Kyriannon and then lead a delegation to Cyprus. Cypritol state in northern Cyprus, to "to try to [weather the present crisis]."
Congress yesterday condemned the declaration of a separate Turkish Federated State of Cyrus.
The Senate passed a resolution by voice vote declaring the United States should "act with urgency and determination to oppose this and any other action" aimed at a permanent division of the island.
THE HOUSE passed its own resolution, saying that the attempt to make the Turkish-dominated portion of Cyprus a separate state should not be recognized by the United States as a legitimate act.
Civil servants, shopkeepers, factory workers and other salaried employees joined the strike in towns and cities throughout the Greek Cypriot southern sector. Cyprus radio went off the air for the duration of the protest.
The situation was calm as 2,500
U. N. troops remained alive along the "green line," the border between the Turkish-controlled northern sector and the southern two-thirds of the island.
A U.N. spokesman said no incidents had been reported since Tuesday, when Denkhtak proclaimed the independence of the northern sector of the island occupied by nearly 20,000 from Turkey, 50 miles to the north.
IN ANKARA, Foreign Ministry spokesman Nazmi Akai said Turkey would accept a British government proposal for talks with Britain and Greece "to discuss the Cypruslements as guarantor countries."
Britain, the former colonial power in Cyprus and co-guardant of a united Cyprus republic with Greece, has been undermined the Turkish Cypriot action.
In London, Kyriapian, leader of the Greek Cypriot majority, called for international political and economic sanctions against Turkey if it refused to overthrow the self-proclaimed republic.
In Washington, the Senate and the House in separate resolutions called for firm U.S. efforts to oppose the independence move by Turkish Cypriots and to seek political unification of the island.
KYPRIANOU, who was to confer with British Prime Minister Margaret
Thatcher on the crisis, warned at a news conference that the problem could spill over to other parts of the strategic eastern Mediterranean.
"I am talking beyond Cyprus, in the area," Kyriapou said. "We don't want bloodshed, we don't want war. But that should not be taken as meaning that we don't insist on quick action to reverse the situation."
Kyrippan, who was on his way to New York, stopped in Athens Wednesday to talk with Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou.
Denktash, in New York to plead his independence case before the United Nations, said at a news conference that he was prepared to hold talks with the Greek Cypris to create a federated republic.
AT A SEPARATE news conference, Cypriot Foreign Minister George Iacovou dismissed the federation idea as an attempt to 'camouflage partition' of the island, divided for 10 of its 23 years as a nation.
Most Turkish Cypriots, 23 percent of a population of 637,000, live in the northern third of the island. Other than Turkey and Bangladesh, most countries have withheld recognition of the Turkish Cypriot state.
The 10-motion European Economic Community condemned the Turkish Cypriot secession, which was defended by the United States Tuesday.
Humor and tricks used to resist the urge 19.5 million smokers quit for a day
By United Press International
Surgeon General C. Everett Koop's report said heart disease caused by cigarette smoking would kill 170,000 Americans this year and could eventually take the lives of 10 percent of the population.
The society said a telephone survey of 2,123 households showed 29 percent of the male smokers and 43.7 percent of the female smokers were attempting to complete the 24-hour mass nicotine fast.
CARLROLTON, Ga.  - A record 19.5 million cigarette smokers – 35.6 percent of the nation's estimated 55 million – joined the seventh Annual Great American Smokeout yesterday, American Cancer Society announced.
Some drew on help from friends and relatives. Others resorted to tricks such as snapping a rubber band on the wrist when the yen became overpowering. Some were faced with the peer pressure of "public humiliation" if they gave in before the midnight deadline.
Midpoint in the nicotine fast that started midnight Wednesday, the newest U.S. Surgeon General's report on smoking and health came out in Washington.
**FEW SMOKEOUT** groups had a send-off to match the one in Carrollton, Ga. where the entire town of 35,000 quit smoking for the required 24 hours.
A Gallup Poll to be conducted in several weeks will find how many lasted 24 hours this time around, the society said. In last year's Smokeout, 4.5 million smokers hung on for the full period.
At a pre-Smokout pep rally and bonfire, cheerleaders from West Georgia College cheered, "Breathe — Breathe — We take it all for granted — but if we keep on smoking — in the ground we will be planted."
THOUSANDS ACROSS the nation dialed recorded messages from psychiatrists through a micine hotline set up by the American Psychiatric Association.
The 19.5 million figure was half a
million more than the figure for last
year.
consumed about 15 cups of coffee before noon yesterday, but he was determined to adhere to the town's vow not to smoke.
"Unless smoking habits of the American population change, perhaps 10 percent of all persons now alive may die prematurely of heart disease attributable to their smoking behavior," the report said.
Mayor Tracy Stallings already had
Millions of smokers across the nation pit their willpower against their cigarette habit.
KOOP'S REPORT also noted a decline in the number of regular smokers in the U.S. population from 42.8 percent in 1966 to 33 percent in 1980, with the decrease most prevalent among older men. But the average number through 21.7 cigarettes a day in 1980, up slightly from 20 in 1970, the report said.
The first smokers were caught just hours before the Smokeout began when two Oklahoma men were arrested, paraded through the town square in a mule cart and ordered to have dinner with the mayor.
Many people relied on humor to get them through the day. Smokers who lit up in Gainesville, Texas, were warned not to sit and light-hearted public humiliation.
Koop said new research has shown that the increased risk of death from heart disease begins to recede almost immediately after a cigarette smoker quits.
LIBYB BARKER, organizer of Gainesville's Smokeout activities, said the men were "real good sports . . . and they say they'll try (to quit)."
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